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One lap of the Web: Lost childhood cars, the Jeep Wagoneer at 50 and Airstream's rental service goes live

May 5, 2013

If this combo doesn't make you want to embark on an adventure, we're not sure what's wrong with you. Photo by ifsja.org

We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about.

-- At Petrolicious, Alan Franklin makes the case for the Fiat 124 Spider as the affordable way to get into an Italian roadster. It's certainly a sharp-looking car that can reportedly be had for $500, with excellent examples fetching $7,000. Worth the potential risk? You decide.

-- Jalopnik fills us in on the Jiotto Caspita, a futuristic supercar might-have-been from the late 1980s. We think it looks strikingly like the Pagani Zonda with just a hint of the Honda NSX in the tail. Did the wild Caspita inspire the designers of these later cars?